MIKE ATKIN School of Education 485 Lasuen Mall Stanford University Stanford, California 94305-3096 Ph: 650.450.3514 Fax: 650.725.7412 E-mail:
[email protected] September 2009 Education B. S. (Chemistry) City College of New York, 1947 M. A. (Science Education) New York University, 1948 Ph.D. (Science Education) New York University, 1956 Major Positions Ramaz School, New York City, 1948-50 Junior and Senior High School Teacher of General Science, Biology, Chemistry Great Neck (New York) Public Schools, 1950-55 Elementary-School Science Teacher College of Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1955-1979 Assistant Professor of Science Education, 1955-57 Associate Professor of Science Education, 1957-60 Professor of Science Education, 1960-79 Associate Dean for Research, 1966-70 Dean, 1970-79 School of Education, Stanford University, Stanford, California, 1979- Professor of Education, 1979-2004; Dean, 1979-86; Emeritus Professor, 2004- Publications Books, Book Chapters, Reports, and Monographs: 1. (with R. Will Burnett), Elementary School Science Activities Series Air, Winds, and Weather, 1958 Electricity and Magnetism, 1958 Working with Animals, 1959 Atkin Résumé Working with Plants, 1959 New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston 2. (with J. D. Barnard, C. B. Stendler, B. V. Spock), Books 5 and 6, Science for Tomorrow’s World. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1959, l962, l966. 3. “Teaching Science,” Chapter 12 in Modern Methods in Elementary Education (M. M. Ohlsen, ed.). New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, l959. 4. (with staff of the Elementary-School Science Project) Charting the Universe The Universe in Motion Gravitation The Message of Starlight The Life Story of a Star Galaxies and the Universe New York: Harper and Row, 1969.